Absorbing composition and process of making same.



i that will'serve as a sand, thoroughly JOHN FREDRIOK MAY, or NEWTON, KANSAS.

' ABSORBING COMPOSITION AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 7, 1908.

Application filed March 5, 1908. Serial No. 419,258.

To allwhom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN FR'EDRIoK MAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, in the county of Harve and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Absorbing Composition and Process of Making Same; and I do declare the followin to be a full, clear, and exact description 0% the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved process, and composition for laying, collecting or absorbing dust in rooms, stores or similar places when the floors, carpets or other l'loor coverings, are being s 'ept, and my object is to provide a composition that can be preared and ready for use in a comparatively imited time, that will'thoroughly collect or absorb the dust while a room is being swept, thus preventing healthfulness of the particles rising and illing the air in the room and obviating the inconvenience of removing it from the furniture upon whicha part settles, that will thoroughly cleanse the floor, will not stain it, and disinfectant, deodorizer and moth destroyer, therebyserving a healthful purpose and often aiding in preventing the destruction of carpets.

To accomplish these'objects following ingredients combined in a proportion stated, saw-dust, thirty pounds of salt and forty pounds of sand. ilhese .must be thoroughly dry and each should be separately sifted through a sand sieve, in no case coarser, than a No. 10. "he salt is then put into a suitable vessel, the saw-dust added and the two are thoroughly mixed. To these I add'the mixing it with thesaw-dust and salt. I then add one pound of naphtha lene and thoroughly mix it and the three previously mentioned ingredients. llaving allowed about live quarts of non-volatile oil having aboiling point a hcit to be heated until'lukewarm' and also, heated separately, about one and one half pints of parallin, I. pour the parallin into the oiland quickly and thoroug ily m x the par- I em )loy the out the the discomfort and unviz: twenty pounds of,

bove 180 Fahren-.

naphthalene, non-volatile while the parai'lin is still Wa m the vessel containing the as herein.-

allin and oil; I pour them into ingredients previously mixed, before stated, and mix sand, naphthalene, oil .and parallin tnoroughly together for about thirty minutes.

l he oil is then thoroughly absorbed and the mixture consists of uniform granules ready for use, the paraflin forminga coating over the granules which prevents the oil staining the floor. In my compound the oil I use is what ,is known as dustless floor oil. The base of this'floor oil being a mineral oil which stands a fire test of about 325 degrees and the balance of the oil compound havin r an even higher fire test than the base, it wi 1 be seen that my composition through lackiof inflammableness is unusuallj safe.

What I claim and desire to secure by Let tors Patent, is:-

1. The herein-described composition of dust, 30 pounds of salt, 40 pounds of sand and one pound of naphthalene in their dry state, with about one and one-half pints of parallin and 5 quarts of dustless floor oil, substantially as set forth.

2. The process of producing a dust collecting or absorbing composition which consists in thoroughly drying and sifting sawdust and sand, adding salt and naphthalene thereto, and mixing all thoroughly together, adding to said dry mixed composition a nonvolatile oil having a boiling point above 180 Fahrenheit and paral'lin heated and mixed,

then thoroughly commingling said oil andparallin with the dry material, the whole forming granules, substantially as described. 3. The herein-described composition of matter consisting of saw-dust, sand and salt, oil above a boiling point ol 180 Fahrenheit and parallin, substantially asdeseribed.

in testimony whereof, I. allix my signature in presence of two witnesses. JOHN FREDRICK MAY.

WVitnesses:

FRANK GREENE, J. 1i. VVILLIAMSON.

the saw-dust, "salt,

'matter consisting of about 20 pounds of saw- 

